Suicide

Mayank was an aspiring actor and he wanted to make it big in the film industry but it is wisely said that not all the dreams come into reality as few of them are also meant to shatter down. He was very hard-working talented but he was not able to crack any of the auditions from past few days. He had few short roles earlier but it was not what he wanted.

Mayank started feeling depressed as it was almost four years since he landed in the film industry with a dream to make it big but unfortunately he was only talented and he was barely having any contacts or a god father within the industry due to which he was only a struggling outsider.

Mayank stayed with his childhood friend Sarthak who was working in a tech firm as a software engineer in the same city. Both of them share the same apartment and Sarthak use to pay for rent and other things most of the times as he did not wanted Mayank to stop following his dreams.

Both the friends often rehearse the roles for auditions in which Sarthak helps Mayank in getting the lines right, Sarthak was very confident of his friend and he always tried motivating his friend to stay positive and focused towards the goal.

Sarthak was shutting his laptop down as he was done for the day, his mobile rang. It was Mayank, he picked it up.

“Where are you?” It was Mayank. “I’m about to leave from office, tell me. Where are you right now?”Sarthak asked his friend.“I’ve just reached the apartment.” Mayank replied.

“Ok, why don’t we go out for couple of drinks, oh I forgot to ask you how was your today’s audition?” Sarthak was anxiously waiting to hear from his friend.

“I don’t know, what to say as I’m fed up of one specific line from everyone.”Mayank paused for a while and then said “Thank you very much for coming and we will get back to you for the results.”

“It is ok, don’t worry much on it as we can only control our actions not the results. Remember my friend that you will definitely make it big one day and you will be creating history.” Sarthak tried to cheer up. “Anyways you get ready we both are going out after all it is weekend.”

Mayank was upset and did not wanted to go out for anything but at the same time he did not wanted to reject the weekend celebration of his friend out rightly so he said “You come over we will arrange something here only and after all one need to have money to pay your weekend bills which I don’t have.”Sarthakreplied “It is on me, don’t worry” but Mayank did not liked it as his friend has already taken care of his expenses without any complaints and he did not wanted this more to happen so he said “Not this time, sometime later. You come over I’ll create an amazing atmosphere inside the apartment only.” Sarthak did not pushed his friend much as he also did not wanted to hurt his friend’s self-respect so he agreed to his friend’s proposal.

Both the friends were sitting made a weekend arrangement inside the apartment only and sat on the couch with the drinks glasses in their hand.

Sarthak asked his friend “What happened in the auditions?”

“Nothing new, it was same repetitive thing. Only scene and lines were different.”Mayank replied after taking a sip of his drink. “I don’t think I’ll get through this audition also as the production house team are planning to launch some star kid.”

“Ok, and who gave you this news?” Sarthak asked his friend to which he replied “Don’t forget I stay in the same circle so don’t question my resources.”

“But it can be wrong as well, I think you should focus more on your acting skills. You are an outsider and every outsider have to struggle to create a mark in this industry which is filled with cut throat competition.”Sarthak said.

“Leave it, this place requires you to have a sharp PR skills not acting skills.” Mayank was upset so Sarthak changed the topic “Don’t you think we are drinking too slowly, don’t forget we have entire bottle to finish.”

“Don’t try and change the topic. You know you are a true brother from another mother.”Mayank got up and took the bottle to refill his glass.Sarthak also got up and placed his glass in front of his friend and said “Don’t forget your engineering exams when you were down with a typhoid and despite sickness you went to appear for the exam and got 2nd rankand everybody knows how tough it is. You dropped your studies with your own choice to chase your acting dreams so don’t forget and suppress your capability that you can turn around the things. So cheers my brother from another mother and I’m very confident that you will turn around things this time as well.

After few round of drinks Mayank said “I’m done as I also need to rehearse for tomorrow auditions.” Sarthak kept his glass down and asked his friend “What, do you have audition tomorrow? You should have told me earlier. We could have practiced it anyways what is the brief of tomorrows audition?”

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